'Certainty' definitions:
Definition of 'certainty'
From: WordNet
noun
The state of being certain; "his certainty reassured the others" [ant: doubt, doubtfulness, dubiety, dubiousness, incertitude, uncertainty]
noun
Something that is certain; "his victory is a certainty" [syn: certainty, sure thing, foregone conclusion] [ant: precariousness, uncertainness, uncertainty]
Definition of 'Certainty'
From: GCIDE
- Certainty \Cer"tain*ty\, n.; pl. Certainties. [OF. certainet['e].]
- 1. The quality, state, or condition, of being certain. [1913 Webster]
- The certainty of punishment is the truest security against crimes. --Fisher Ames. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A fact or truth unquestionable established. [1913 Webster]
- Certainties are uninteresting and sating. --Landor. [1913 Webster]
- 3. (Law) Clearness; freedom from ambiguity; lucidity. [1913 Webster]
- Of a certainty, certainly. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'certainty'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- absolutely,
- absoluteness,
- acceptation,
- acception,
- acquiescence,
- act of God,
- actuality,
- anticipation,
- assurance,
- assuredly,
- assuredness,
- authoritativeness,
- belief,
- certainly,
- certitude,
- confidence,
- connection,
- contemplation,
- conviction,
- credence,
- credit,
- credulity,
- definitely,
- definiteness,
- dependence,
- dogmatism,
- expectancy,
- expectation,
- fact,
- faith,
- fate,
- fatefulness,
- firmness,
- for a certainty,
- for sure,
- force majeure,
- hope,
- imminence,
- indefeasibility,
- indubitably,
- ineluctability,
- inescapableness,
- inevasibleness,
- inevitability,
- inevitable accident,
- inevitableness,
- inexorability,
- inflexibility,
- irrevocability,
- necessity,
- positively,
- positiveness,
- positivism,
- predetermination,
- probability,
- prospect,
- reality,
- reception,
- relentlessness,
- reliance,
- reliance on,
- self-assurance,
- staunchness,
- steadiness,
- stock,
- store,
- sure thing,
- surely,
- sureness,
- surety,
- suspension of disbelief,
- thought,
- trust,
- truth,
- unastonishment,
- unavoidable casualty,
- unavoidableness,
- uncontrollability,
- undeflectability,
- undeniably,
- undoubtedly,
- unpreventability,
- unquestionably,
- unyieldingness,
- vis major